Category: MVCA NEWS

November 7, 2011 5:30 -9pm The Inn at St. John’s Plymouth, MI

MVCA members dined with Congressman Gary Peters (D-MI 9) August 8 at Grange Kitchen and Bar in downtown Ann Arbor.  Rep. Peters met beforehand with MVCA board members and later with at-large members to better understand both our state and national venture capital industry as he and other lawmakers move on to the subject of […]

Portfolio Company Valuations: Issues and Updates – November 28, 2011 2-3pm MVCA member Cendrowski Corporate Advisors will be hosting a series of webinars for our members and portfolio companies. Dial-in details will be provided closer to the date. If you are interested in attending, please contact the MVCA.

MVCA members helped Prof. David Brophy and the U-M Zell Lurie Institute celebrates the 30th anniversary of their annual event, the Michigan Growth Capital Symposium. Highlights included a retrospective of the conference’s three decades with remarks by founder Brophy as well as a lunchtime keynote by Silicon Valley VC and U-M alum Jay Hoag. Forty […]

A large crowd of investors and industry supporters enjoyed cocktails and dinner at a private event at Vinology in connection with the annual MGCS conference. Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer //

The membership of the MVCA took the chance to educate Michigan legislators about the importance of venture capital to Michigan’s revitalization at its  legislative networking event Wednesday, April 12 in Lansing.    Members extolled the virtues of the Small Business Investment Tax Credit and 21st Century Jobs Fund activities and asked how the MVCA and its […]

Michigan entrepreneurs Rob Malan (Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer, Arbor Networks), Ted Dacko (Former President and CEO, HealthMedia Founder, Arbor Dakota Strategies), Josh Linkner (Founder and Chairman, ePrize Managing Director, Detroit Venture Partners), and Tim Mayleben (President & CEO, Aastrom Biosciences) joined moderator Mina Sooch for a lively panel discussion on the challenges and opportunities […]

Tuesday, February 8, 2011 8-10:30am Kensington Court Ann Arbor MVCA Members & Venture-backed Executives: $0 All Others: $50 http://mvca2011feb.eventbrite.com/

Members of the MVCA Talent Committee are preparing for a busy 2011.  Among the group’s initiatives–sustaining the EIR/CEO Placement program, creating a new MVCA Fellowship program aimed at recent advanced degree graduates of in-state universities, and continuing the popular “Super HotShots” talent recruiting night. The committee members include:  Jim Adox, Venture Investors; Amy Cell, Ann […]

“The tourists have left.”  That’s how National Venture Capital Assn. President Mark Heesen describes the pared down U.S. entrepreneurial ecosystem after several years of tough exit markets, low returns, and an abysmal fundraising environment.  Further, he expects the fallout from the dot-com bust and its effects on the venture capital community to continue through 2011, […]